<p>Indeed, the wrangling has gone too far already. I'm accepting the PEP. It's about as harmless as they come. Make it so.</p>
<p>--Guido van Rossum (sent from Android phone)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 27, 2012 1:12 PM, "Chris McDonough" <<a href="mailto:chrism@plope.com">chrism@plope.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 21:07 +0000, Paul Moore wrote:<br>
> On 27 February 2012 20:39, Chris McDonough <<a href="mailto:chrism@plope.com">chrism@plope.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Note that u'' literals are sort of the tip of the iceberg here;<br>
> > supporting them will obviously not make development under the subset an<br>
> > order of magnitude less sucky, just a tiny little bit less sucky. There<br>
> > are other extremely annoying things, like str(bytes) returning the repr<br>
> > of a bytestring on Python 3. That's almost as irritating as the absence<br>
> > of u'' literals, but we have to evaluate one thing at a time.<br>
><br>
> So. Am I misunderstanding here, or are you suggesting that this<br>
> particular PEP doesn't help you much, but if it's accepted, it<br>
> represents "the thin end of the wedge" for a series of subsequent PEPs<br>
> suggesting fixes for a number of other "extremely annoying things"...?<br>
><br>
> I'm sure that's not what you meant, but it's certainly what it sounded<br>
> like to me!<br>
<br>
I'm way too lazy. The political wrangling is just too draining<br>
(especially over something so trivial). But I will definitely support<br>
other proposals that make it easier to straddle, sure.<br>
<br>
- C<br>
<br>
<br>
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